Exploring topics in the history and philosophy of logic / George Englebretsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Englebretsen, George, author.

Series:

Philosophische Analyse ; Band 67.

Philosophische Analyse, 2198-2066 ; Band 67 = Philosophical Analysis ; Volume 67

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Logic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (198 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While post-Fregean logicians tend to ignore or even denigrate the traditional logic of Aristotle and the Scholastics, new work in recent years has shown the viability of a renewed, extended, and strengthened logic of terms that shares fundamental features of the old syllogistic. A number of logicians, following the lead of Fred Sommers, have built just such a term logic. It is a system of formal logic that not only matches the expressive and inferential powers of today’s standard logic, but surpasses it and is far simpler and more natural. This book aims to substantiate this claim by exhibiting just how the term logic can shed need light on a variety of challenges that face any system of formal logic.

Contents:

Front matter

Getting Oriented

Contents

1. Liar’s Lookout

2. Ryle’s Way With the Liar* by Fred Sommers

3. The Logic Mountain Range

4. On the Term Functor Trail

5. The Four Corners

6. Referential Falls

7. Strawberry Fields

8. Into the Metaphysical Bogs

9. Ratiocination: An Empirical Account* by Fred Sommers

10. Back to Logic Lodge, Base Camp

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110433814

3110433818

9783110435047

3110435047

OCLC:

920823138